Well, it been a long time coming, but it’s finally arrived.
Drum roll please…
“blondepedia”
Of course, feel free to post any questions here. If you have any suggestions, then may I urge you to utilise the ‘contribution’ feature of the database, which helps keep all my ‘blondepedia’ comments in one place. I’m sure you’re all brimming with questions (cough), but just to try and pre-empt a few, I penned a brief F&Q list...
• What is blondepedia?
In simple terms, blondepedia is a bio and gallery database. With so many images at our disposal and an extensive knowledge of hundreds of players, it seemed a waste not to use it, so I decided to try create a home for that information that would simultaneously double up as a cracking little resource for anyone who wanted to learn a little bit more about the players that make up the game we love. For me, poker is about more than facts and figures, who won what where and when, it’s about the players, the characters and the true personalities of the game – hopefully the database and the bios go someway to justifying that statement.
• How do I access blondepedia?
Easy. Either type in
www.blondepedia.com or access it via blonde's menu bar - 'tools & resources'. We're also going to put a link on homepage.
• How many entries are there?
There are currently 863 entries and 368 bios (not a bad percentage, eh?), but we’re always expanding. There are thousand of pictures.
• What are the requirements to be entered into the gallery?
To be eligible for entry you have to have (1) participated in a Main Event covered by our blonde live update team and (2) had your mug photographed by the blonde paparazzi.
• I played such and such event and had my piccy taken. Why aren’t I in there?
There’s a chance we’ve missed you out, but the most likely answer is that we haven’t delved into the galleries of the event you played in. Potential entries from recent live updates will be entered in due course.
• Why haven’t I got a bio?
Nothing personal, I’ve written as many as I can.
• Who writes the bios?
Anyone but the player in question can offer to write a bio. However, we can’t upload anything of a poor standard. If you would like to write a bio, please use the ‘contribution’ page.
• In what other ways can we contribute?
I’m really keen for people to notify of me of any typos, misspelled names, incorrect nationalities and so on. It’s human nature to make the odd slip-up, so please feel free to highlight them via the ‘contribute’ page so I can make the alteration. Similarly, if you have any further information on people or know their name or nationality, then please let me know.
• Why not use Wikipedia?
This was considered, but I wanted something new, different, unique, charismatic – something of our own.
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When I started this project, I had no idea of the time and effort involved. It’s taken up so much of my time that I’ve hardly been able to breathe and, rather disapprovingly, haven’t even bought into a single live comp in 2007. However, now that’s it’s alive and kicking, I’m glad I completed the task in hand as I feel it is a strong contribution to the blonde poker brand and will provide all the blondeites with a useful resource on a variety of players within the game, whether they’re high stakes pro’s or small time local players.
This is all very new to me and the database is on its first outing in the real world, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see the odd bug rear it’s ugly head. If you spot anything, then, once again, please let me know. Fingers crossed it doesn’t explode over the next few days.
In closing, I’d like to thank the following people who helped me with bios. They were a great help and conceded their time for no financial gain, in particular the likes of sofa---king, ariston, jaffacake and Lucky Blind who really helped me out with players that I knew very little about. Many thanks and apologies to anyone I have missed out…
Sofa---king
Tikay
TightEnd
Jen
Floppy
Ifm
Jaffacake
I KNOW IT
Danafish
El Blondie
Camel
Dingdell
AndrewT
thetank
Charmaine
Ariston
Lucky Blind (of antesup.com)
Julian
Nic Hicks
Matt674
Geeforce
Karabiner
MC
Finally, a big thank you to Jammer for programming the site (if that is the correct terminology) and Bongo for his assistance blonde side. Both have been stars!
Snoops
EDIT: There are currently two bugs that need to be rectified and are currently being investigated. (1) The send message option on the contribute page isn't visible on Internet Explorer meaning people can't submit their messages and (2) all apostrophes appear to have vanished from bios.
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